How about, "Canada cares too much about child porn". Like, computer generated child porn, and stuff like that (not sure if Canada has law against computer, or any other form of "synthetically" generated child porn). We all know what happens with over-zealous "censors", they use the excuse of "protection" in order to violate even your basic rights. All censors start banning little things and then they think they have the power to do whatever they want, and start censoring anything they don't like.
As an example, I'll use PervertedJustice. They are just a bunch of very, VERY sick christian fanatics. They even label discussions on child abuse as actual child abuse. They chat with anyone, and pass for minors, and start teasing them. People that MAYBE wouldn't have talked to children (defining children as anyone under 18, but they would of course love to take that limit to 21 and broaden their field). Then they ask you to meet in real life, and police is waiting for you. That is just sick. Just sending people to jail out of sheer pleasure. To make it even sicker, they show that on national TV.
But well, they have found trouble now. One of their victims commited suicide and now them, and the producers of a that TV show are now in deep shit for the death of this guy.
No, that's you being just stupid. "Country X doesn't care" doesn't exist. Poor countries don't have the resources to find these sites, Canada could do their part letting them know about it. And I don't think there are that many countries that "Don't Care".
Blacklisting is just a pain for webmasters, like it happened to this small ISP in Canada which hosted "Child Love" websites. They couldn't close it down, so they blocked it (actually, they pulled strings to have Verizon stop selling access for them, which is the same thing as blocking, only they can't sue anybody for free speech).
But, isn't it easier to take down these sites, instead of blocking them? I see cops catching the drug dealers, not forming a ring around them so people won't buy drugs from them. So why don't they do the same thing to these sites.
Why BLOCK access? Do they think that, if people ignore them they will go away?
OK, first all, you need to mark packets. I suggest via MAC address matching, so none of your kids can play smartass and change IP addresses (they could change their mac addresses but that's harder to accomplish. Let's assume your kids can't change that).
Next step is using CONNLIMIT. Limit every mac to a certain limit. When they fire a P2P app, it will fuck their connections, their IM software will start disconnecting and dropping messsages, etc. That'll drive them nuts. Also, keep them from using P2P too much.
Third, bandwidth limit. I suggest creating two priority classes. One, for "good" traffic (output to ports 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 80, 110, 443, 1863 (msn messenger), etc). Let's assume you have 200kbps of output, use 50kbps for that, and 150 for the rest. The rest will never go beyond 150k, and you'll have a pretty decent 50kbps out for HTTP requests, etc. Attach a SFQ to each of the classes, so that you can burst HTTP and small e-mails but throttle attachments. If this doesn't work, you can even create a third class, for your kids. If you filter port 80 prio 1 and handle fwmark prio 8, they'll still go through the quick port 80, but their P2P apps will slow down. So you'll have 3 classes: quick bursts, your own the kids' p2p, and "everyting else".
lartc.org/howto. Plan this drawing a tree of priority classes on paper, and then test, test, test! (tc -s qdisc show class dev ppp0 works good enough for me).
Also, raise your conntrack_max! http://www.wallfire.org/misc/netfilter_conntrack_p erf.txt
I think you can buy rights for something. As you stated, I'm not technically buying the rights, but I'm buying a license, which in turns, gives me certain rights. So buying a license, gives me rights. Transitivity law: if a ==> b and b ==> c, then a ==> c. Let a=buy, b=license and c=rights, then "If I can BUY a LICENSE, and LICENSES gives me RIGHTS then i can BUY RIGHTS". There, syntactically and logically correct.
You are confusing terms. When I create a piece of work, I get the "innate" (your word) right to do whatever I want with it. I can sell (for any sum, including 0) licenses, which are basically contracts which specific rights I'm giving you. a subset of my rights. Let R="All of my innate rights", I can give you any subset of R, including the empty set (no soup for you!), a subset, or the whole R set. That is, give you all of my rights. I can even keep my rights. As rights are not physical entities, they can reproduce as quickly as needed. So that means I also have the right for you to give rights.
Corporations know this. That's why they invented the DMCA. Technically, you have the right (fair use) to copy the data. But it's illegal for you to break (circumvent) the protection schemes (if any) used to protect the data. That's what DRM can, theoretically, help the end user: no need to break the protection scheme in order to get another copy without paying for it. You have bought the rights to listen to that song, whenever and wherever you want. If you lose it, the company must provide you with another copy of the song (because you didn't but the "file", you bought the "song". You can lose a file, but you can't lose a "song". Song, defined as any kind of intellectual property, such as a software program, musical piece, etc).
Basically, you agree to a contract where you buy the right to buy the song, and they agree to provide you with a song, as many times as necessary.
I think all the DRM stuff was about testing the market. See how much they could push it without users complaining. And they tried to make it draconian. Didn't work. They found that people don't really like to be told what to do. Or better, what they can and cannot do.
There's only one thing about DRM that I actually liked. You were, finally, buying RIGHTS for something. That means, if you ever lose your files, you could download the songs again at no charge (that was possible on some systems, IIRC). That's not the case with vinyls, tapes and CDs. You lost the vinyl, tape or CD, and you must buy a new one, and pay for the songs again. So there was no clear line of what you were buying: either the physical media, or the songs contained in it. Apparently, it was a Christian approach, kind of "body+soul", there were indivisible. You couldn't even take your scratched CD to the store and pay the price of the CD (the media alone) to get a new one. Also, this meant that you couldn't "upgrade" formats for a small sum (take your tape and pay a few bucks, and go home with a CD).
Well, I'm writing this from a non-HD ready country, so I haven't checked for myself. I'd like to ask, nerdy enough slashdotters, how did they solve the issue of Amy's obscene tattoo, which wouldn't be visible on lo-def TVs, now that there's HDTV?
That's the factor he isn't taking into account. OLPC's are designed for poor countries. In a poor country, you don't pay $50.000/yr to your school's computer technician. In fact, you don't have one. The "CS" teacher handles that task. neither you buy top-of-the-line Cisco access points, you go with $100 crap. A teacher's salary in a poor country is about $200-$300 a month.
Why are we SO hung up on the ' sexual predator ' when there are folks FAR more dangerous out there ?
POLITICS, DUDE!!!
Pedophilia is a magic word. it can give you rights to shit even on the constitution if you need, because people will always agree on screwing and killing and do all sort of things to pedophiles (things they wouldn't even do to murderers, or even rapists). So, politicians take that and use it for their own good. Nobody cares if you killed 10 people, but god forbid you from looking at a 17 year old ass, because you are a pervert.
Check this out: you are 35 and screwing a 17 year old: that makes you a disgusting, dirty old man, a pedophile who should burn in hell, for raping a little innocent girl. The moment she turns 18 (an infinitely small amount of time, because time is linear, but let's take it down to 10^-99 seconds to make it small enough), you also turn from a dirty old man, to a total winner. And she, the innocent little girl is a black widow wanting to take your money. Isn't that funny?
As a last thought, let me remember that pedophilia is considered a mental disease, just like schizophrenia. Do we put crazy dudes in jail? No, we put them on INSTITUTIONS. But pedophiles go to Jail (why? It's not a fault from the pedophile to be a pedophile. Maybe he was a "victim" of a pedophile when he was a kid. And now he has to pay for being raped as a kid? My god!).
Not true. I live in Argentina and most computers here come preloaded with Linux (because windows is too expensive). People want Microsoft Word and MSN Messenger. There is none of these on linux (and they don't want replacement, they want THE actual thing). So most people go and get a pirate version of Windows and have it installed.
HP is even worse. A friend of mine bought a laptop, and it came preloaded with FREEDOS. That's just a nice way of saying "we don't give a shit, just get yourself a pirate copy of windows" (because you had the option of buying it with Windows preinstalled). They don't even install Linux, which would give you a useful machine.
It's sad to be in 2006 with a shiny new HP laptop, and have it boot to a:
sony always does that (they did it with the DAT, the UMD, the BETAMAX, etc). they are always trying to force their standard, but in the end nobody buys it.
I don't blame them. I would also like to create some sort of software or hardware and then live the rest of my life off the royalties.
very true. I live in Argentina. Power transistors (for TV power supplies, for example. or for the horizontal drive) have always been rather expensive, but now they are dirt cheap. About USD 0,50 or USD 1. The problem is that you put that transistor and it either blows up right there and then, or it lasts for 15 minutes. Maybe one in 10 or 20 works.
I happen to work for major consumer electronic brands, and I can buy original parts from them. The same power transistor (say, a BUT11), but this time "original", works flawlessly. But it costs 10 times as much. You see both, the cheap and the expensive one and they look exactly the same. I think they are selling the rejects as cheap and the expensive ones are the ones that actually get tested and pass all specs.
bullshit. I use color 84 lamps from Philips, they give out very nice light, "tri-phosphor" coating with added red that compensates for the excess blue. The standard color is 54 and is the regular fluorescent lamp we all know.
I personally like color 84 but there's also 83 (warmer) and 86 (colder). I use 36W lamps, model TLD36W840 (tube) and PL-L 36W/840/4P (PL). They are WAY expensive (3 or 4 times more than the regulars) but... it's just $4 vs. $1,50 ! They are expensive because these are made in the Netherlands (tubes) and Poland (PL).
And they don't flicker (I even live in a 50Hz country). But even if that annoys you, you can always use a 20KHz ballast, that also gives you instant start.
bullshit, I have several a/cs at home. One is mechanical (3 years model, cheap but works great), the other two, a el-cheapo one with a digital panel and a "restore" switch (memorizes the last state), and a whirlpool one with a digital panel with a 3-way switch: power-off on power back, power on on power back, and "forced", which just keeps the unit going non-stop (don't know what that is for).
Well, if you believed the parent poster, you certainly missed the whole point of my post. Honestly, do you believe that the US actually "helps" other countries? There's always an interest behind all the US actions in the world.
Let me illustrate. Do you think corporations do charity because they are good guys? No. Here's a key phrase for you, kid: "Tax Deductible". And if they can't make it tax deductible, then they call the press and make a big show of it. Keyword: "Publicity".
If you think the US went to war to Iraq just to help the poor people who were dying under Saddam Hussein's regime, then you really need to stop watching CNN. Keyword: Oil.
As an american, you do NOT have the moral authority to call anyone a 'warlord'. You have started more wars around the world than any other country, and these wars were only to take over smaller governments and steal their goods (mostly their oil) and all in the name of "freedom" (in a country where news need to be approved by a government censor) or "god" (not respecting the right of other people to have different religions).
I'm in favor of building the Mexico-US wall. Then you could also make a wall in the canada border, and then in the pacific and atlantic. Just do what you did in the first half of the century (until pearl harbor) and just keep everything inside your borders. Don't try to help us, we can do fine without you. Just don't mind us, the rest of the world. You are an autarky and don't need us either.
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this website was global. But hey, seems to be a US-only website. Just because your adoption system is so fucked up doesn't mean that every country is the same.
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How about, "Canada cares too much about child porn". Like, computer generated child porn, and stuff like that (not sure if Canada has law against computer, or any other form of "synthetically" generated child porn). We all know what happens with over-zealous "censors", they use the excuse of "protection" in order to violate even your basic rights. All censors start banning little things and then they think they have the power to do whatever they want, and start censoring anything they don't like.
As an example, I'll use PervertedJustice. They are just a bunch of very, VERY sick christian fanatics. They even label discussions on child abuse as actual child abuse. They chat with anyone, and pass for minors, and start teasing them. People that MAYBE wouldn't have talked to children (defining children as anyone under 18, but they would of course love to take that limit to 21 and broaden their field). Then they ask you to meet in real life, and police is waiting for you. That is just sick. Just sending people to jail out of sheer pleasure. To make it even sicker, they show that on national TV.
But well, they have found trouble now. One of their victims commited suicide and now them, and the producers of a that TV show are now in deep shit for the death of this guy.
Yes, but if it has problems, it's the BIOS manufacturer's fault, not Microsoft's. That's outsorcing taken to the extreme!
No, that's you being just stupid. "Country X doesn't care" doesn't exist. Poor countries don't have the resources to find these sites, Canada could do their part letting them know about it. And I don't think there are that many countries that "Don't Care".
Blacklisting is just a pain for webmasters, like it happened to this small ISP in Canada which hosted "Child Love" websites. They couldn't close it down, so they blocked it (actually, they pulled strings to have Verizon stop selling access for them, which is the same thing as blocking, only they can't sue anybody for free speech).
But, isn't it easier to take down these sites, instead of blocking them? I see cops catching the drug dealers, not forming a ring around them so people won't buy drugs from them. So why don't they do the same thing to these sites.
Why BLOCK access? Do they think that, if people ignore them they will go away?
OK, first all, you need to mark packets. I suggest via MAC address matching, so none of your kids can play smartass and change IP addresses (they could change their mac addresses but that's harder to accomplish. Let's assume your kids can't change that).
p erf.txt
Next step is using CONNLIMIT. Limit every mac to a certain limit. When they fire a P2P app, it will fuck their connections, their IM software will start disconnecting and dropping messsages, etc. That'll drive them nuts. Also, keep them from using P2P too much.
Third, bandwidth limit. I suggest creating two priority classes. One, for "good" traffic (output to ports 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 80, 110, 443, 1863 (msn messenger), etc). Let's assume you have 200kbps of output, use 50kbps for that, and 150 for the rest. The rest will never go beyond 150k, and you'll have a pretty decent 50kbps out for HTTP requests, etc. Attach a SFQ to each of the classes, so that you can burst HTTP and small e-mails but throttle attachments.
If this doesn't work, you can even create a third class, for your kids. If you filter port 80 prio 1 and handle fwmark prio 8, they'll still go through the quick port 80, but their P2P apps will slow down. So you'll have 3 classes: quick bursts, your own the kids' p2p, and "everyting else".
lartc.org/howto. Plan this drawing a tree of priority classes on paper, and then test, test, test! (tc -s qdisc show class dev ppp0 works good enough for me).
Also, raise your conntrack_max! http://www.wallfire.org/misc/netfilter_conntrack_
Nitpicky, eh? Well, sorry. I think you're wrong.
I think you can buy rights for something. As you stated, I'm not technically buying the rights, but I'm buying a license, which in turns, gives me certain rights. So buying a license, gives me rights. Transitivity law: if a ==> b and b ==> c, then a ==> c. Let a=buy, b=license and c=rights, then "If I can BUY a LICENSE, and LICENSES gives me RIGHTS then i can BUY RIGHTS". There, syntactically and logically correct.
You are confusing terms. When I create a piece of work, I get the "innate" (your word) right to do whatever I want with it. I can sell (for any sum, including 0) licenses, which are basically contracts which specific rights I'm giving you. a subset of my rights. Let R="All of my innate rights", I can give you any subset of R, including the empty set (no soup for you!), a subset, or the whole R set. That is, give you all of my rights. I can even keep my rights. As rights are not physical entities, they can reproduce as quickly as needed. So that means I also have the right for you to give rights.
Corporations know this. That's why they invented the DMCA. Technically, you have the right (fair use) to copy the data. But it's illegal for you to break (circumvent) the protection schemes (if any) used to protect the data. That's what DRM can, theoretically, help the end user: no need to break the protection scheme in order to get another copy without paying for it. You have bought the rights to listen to that song, whenever and wherever you want. If you lose it, the company must provide you with another copy of the song (because you didn't but the "file", you bought the "song". You can lose a file, but you can't lose a "song". Song, defined as any kind of intellectual property, such as a software program, musical piece, etc).
Basically, you agree to a contract where you buy the right to buy the song, and they agree to provide you with a song, as many times as necessary.
I think all the DRM stuff was about testing the market. See how much they could push it without users complaining. And they tried to make it draconian. Didn't work. They found that people don't really like to be told what to do. Or better, what they can and cannot do.
There's only one thing about DRM that I actually liked. You were, finally, buying RIGHTS for something. That means, if you ever lose your files, you could download the songs again at no charge (that was possible on some systems, IIRC). That's not the case with vinyls, tapes and CDs. You lost the vinyl, tape or CD, and you must buy a new one, and pay for the songs again. So there was no clear line of what you were buying: either the physical media, or the songs contained in it. Apparently, it was a Christian approach, kind of "body+soul", there were indivisible. You couldn't even take your scratched CD to the store and pay the price of the CD (the media alone) to get a new one. Also, this meant that you couldn't "upgrade" formats for a small sum (take your tape and pay a few bucks, and go home with a CD).
Well, I'm writing this from a non-HD ready country, so I haven't checked for myself. I'd like to ask, nerdy enough slashdotters, how did they solve the issue of Amy's obscene tattoo, which wouldn't be visible on lo-def TVs, now that there's HDTV?
Slashdotted before First Post!
That's the factor he isn't taking into account. OLPC's are designed for poor countries. In a poor country, you don't pay $50.000/yr to your school's computer technician. In fact, you don't have one. The "CS" teacher handles that task. neither you buy top-of-the-line Cisco access points, you go with $100 crap. A teacher's salary in a poor country is about $200-$300 a month.
not really microsoft's, but Buenos Aires gov't has already done this, and the site is available at www.buenosaires.gov.ar
Did anyone read that at the top right of http://www.fic.com.tw/ it reads "FIC RECOMMENDS WINDOWS XP". Open source friendly?
"The BBC is reporting that music purchased at MSN Music will not play on the new Zune music player"
and
"Since Zune is a separate offering that is not part of the Plays For Sure ecosystem, Zune content is not supported on Plays For Sure devices.'"
what? is ZUNE content not supported on PLAYSFORSURE devices, or is PLAYSFORSURE content not supported on ZUNE? or both??
Pedophilia is a magic word. it can give you rights to shit even on the constitution if you need, because people will always agree on screwing and killing and do all sort of things to pedophiles (things they wouldn't even do to murderers, or even rapists). So, politicians take that and use it for their own good. Nobody cares if you killed 10 people, but god forbid you from looking at a 17 year old ass, because you are a pervert.
Check this out: you are 35 and screwing a 17 year old: that makes you a disgusting, dirty old man, a pedophile who should burn in hell, for raping a little innocent girl. The moment she turns 18 (an infinitely small amount of time, because time is linear, but let's take it down to 10^-99 seconds to make it small enough), you also turn from a dirty old man, to a total winner. And she, the innocent little girl is a black widow wanting to take your money. Isn't that funny?
As a last thought, let me remember that pedophilia is considered a mental disease, just like schizophrenia. Do we put crazy dudes in jail? No, we put them on INSTITUTIONS. But pedophiles go to Jail (why? It's not a fault from the pedophile to be a pedophile. Maybe he was a "victim" of a pedophile when he was a kid. And now he has to pay for being raped as a kid? My god!).
I could go on an on about this subject...
Not true. I live in Argentina and most computers here come preloaded with Linux (because windows is too expensive). People want Microsoft Word and MSN Messenger. There is none of these on linux (and they don't want replacement, they want THE actual thing). So most people go and get a pirate version of Windows and have it installed.
HP is even worse. A friend of mine bought a laptop, and it came preloaded with FREEDOS. That's just a nice way of saying "we don't give a shit, just get yourself a pirate copy of windows" (because you had the option of buying it with Windows preinstalled). They don't even install Linux, which would give you a useful machine.
It's sad to be in 2006 with a shiny new HP laptop, and have it boot to a:
C:\>
sony always does that (they did it with the DAT, the UMD, the BETAMAX, etc). they are always trying to force their standard, but in the end nobody buys it.
I don't blame them. I would also like to create some sort of software or hardware and then live the rest of my life off the royalties.
last time I checked, you couldn't make a "lossy" compression of text.
oh... nevermind. I forgot about teens with SMS.
very true. I live in Argentina. Power transistors (for TV power supplies, for example. or for the horizontal drive) have always been rather expensive, but now they are dirt cheap. About USD 0,50 or USD 1. The problem is that you put that transistor and it either blows up right there and then, or it lasts for 15 minutes. Maybe one in 10 or 20 works.
I happen to work for major consumer electronic brands, and I can buy original parts from them. The same power transistor (say, a BUT11), but this time "original", works flawlessly. But it costs 10 times as much. You see both, the cheap and the expensive one and they look exactly the same. I think they are selling the rejects as cheap and the expensive ones are the ones that actually get tested and pass all specs.
bullshit. I use color 84 lamps from Philips, they give out very nice light, "tri-phosphor" coating with added red that compensates for the excess blue. The standard color is 54 and is the regular fluorescent lamp we all know. I personally like color 84 but there's also 83 (warmer) and 86 (colder). I use 36W lamps, model TLD36W840 (tube) and PL-L 36W/840/4P (PL). They are WAY expensive (3 or 4 times more than the regulars) but... it's just $4 vs. $1,50 ! They are expensive because these are made in the Netherlands (tubes) and Poland (PL). And they don't flicker (I even live in a 50Hz country). But even if that annoys you, you can always use a 20KHz ballast, that also gives you instant start.
bullshit, I have several a/cs at home. One is mechanical (3 years model, cheap but works great), the other two, a el-cheapo one with a digital panel and a "restore" switch (memorizes the last state), and a whirlpool one with a digital panel with a 3-way switch: power-off on power back, power on on power back, and "forced", which just keeps the unit going non-stop (don't know what that is for).
Well, if you believed the parent poster, you certainly missed the whole point of my post. Honestly, do you believe that the US actually "helps" other countries? There's always an interest behind all the US actions in the world.
Let me illustrate. Do you think corporations do charity because they are good guys? No. Here's a key phrase for you, kid: "Tax Deductible". And if they can't make it tax deductible, then they call the press and make a big show of it. Keyword: "Publicity".
If you think the US went to war to Iraq just to help the poor people who were dying under Saddam Hussein's regime, then you really need to stop watching CNN. Keyword: Oil.
As an american, you do NOT have the moral authority to call anyone a 'warlord'. You have started more wars around the world than any other country, and these wars were only to take over smaller governments and steal their goods (mostly their oil) and all in the name of "freedom" (in a country where news need to be approved by a government censor) or "god" (not respecting the right of other people to have different religions).
I'm in favor of building the Mexico-US wall. Then you could also make a wall in the canada border, and then in the pacific and atlantic. Just do what you did in the first half of the century (until pearl harbor) and just keep everything inside your borders. Don't try to help us, we can do fine without you. Just don't mind us, the rest of the world. You are an autarky and don't need us either.
Formerly known as Motorola
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this website was global. But hey, seems to be a US-only website. Just because your adoption system is so fucked up doesn't mean that every country is the same.